Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

art

  • The thing about the AI discourse is that people aren’t taking seriously the direction this is heading — we’re not planning for the future we’re building.

  • What popular music is essential? What are we required to listen to? And do such ideas about art even have a place?

  • The first enemy is obvious. But that second one…we’re tricked into thinking that it is necessary. What makes us good.

  • One year my Mom tried to get us to make our Christmas gifts for one another. There is some serious backstory to all of this, but suffice it to say, she thought she was offering us an antidote to what ailed us. My Mom is an artist. So everyone groaned and thought she had a…

  • In overturning the tables in the temple and reimagining Sabbath law, Jesus invites us into a new relationship to our work. Not as adherents and citizens, but as artists and co-creators. Jesus invites us to be artists collaborating in a global masterpiece Lent 3B  | John 2:13-22 This church may have a lot of doors…

  • THE DUMPSTER FIRE I’m losing track of the horrors The assassination The truck Fireworks in Mexico. So much pain and I’m forgetting it every day there’s more like Professor X my mind is overloaded with voices, everyone’s thoughts and the villains want me so incapacitated I can’t resist. Won’t. Overwhelmed and afraid, the only turn…